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    | The Americans were protesting a tax & a monopoly with this Dec. 16, 1773 event | 
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    incubation
 
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    | In September 2013 a record crowd of more than 115,000 saw host Michigan beat Notre Dame in this football-crazy city | 
    Ann Arbor
 
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    | This one of the 7 deadly sins includes excess drinking as well as eating | 
    gluttony
 
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    | "State" this title of James Michener's 1959 epic | 
    Hawaii
 
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    | Depleted fields, drought & wind created the climate that led to this name for an area of the Great Plains in the 1930s | 
    the Dust Bowl
 
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    | It's the scientific study of fishes | 
    ichthyology
 
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    | Attendance was still down some 20%, but 800,000 revelers jammed the streets of this U.S. city in February 2007 | 
    New Orleans
 
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    | In 2014 this Islamic holy month of fasting began on June 28 in some countries & on the 29th in others | 
    Ramadan
 
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    | This Steinbeck novel follows the destinies of 2 generations of California brothers | 
    (Jeremy: What is Grapes of Wrath?) (Shannon: What is Tortilla Flat?) ... (Alex: That's it, yes. The two brothers.)
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    | In 1951 this married couple was tried under the Espionage Act of 1917 & found guilty | 
    the Rosenbergs
 
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    | A tooth or a broken bone can be this, meaning fixed or pressed closely together | 
    (Alex: And it hurts if you have one [*], particularly with wisdom teeth.)
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    [The end-of-round signal sounds.]
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    | SBC for short, this large Protestant denomination was organized in Georgia in 1845 | 
    the Southern Baptist Convention
 
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    Peyton Place
 
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    | This 1820 agreement said there would be no slavery in the bulk of the Louisiana Territory north of latitude 36°30' | 
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    (Jeremy: What is the Torah?)
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    | Mac Hyman's comedic book about Air Force life was "No Time for" these | 
    Sergeants
 
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    | In the words androcentric & androgen, andro- means this | 
    (Alex: Less than a minute now.)
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    | After shooting President Garfield, he surrendered to police & said, "I am a Stalwart. Arthur is now president of the United States" | 
    Charles Guiteau
 
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    | The magnetosphere is in the outer layer of this | 
    the ionosphere
 
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    | Combining witchcraft & nature worship, this religious movement was first publicized in England in 1954 | 
    Wicca
 
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    | "Across the River & Into the Trees" was a 1950 bestseller by this giant of American literature | 
    Ernest Hemingway
 
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